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View from the River

Frederick Piercy

Medium

1855
Steel engraving
Route from Liverpool

This is an accurate view of how the city appeared nine years after the Saints left. The English artist published his book Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley in 1855, almost ten years after the departure of the Saints. This book was written as a guide for emigrants coming from Great Britain to Utah. By this time, emigrants using this guide were no longer leaving from Nauvoo. Images of the city were included because Nauvoo was the beginning of the original trek west.